Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- muffled-truss-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, Ermine Street, Caxton, CB23 3PQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 304 581
- Coordinates
- 52.20644, -0.0926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, built in 1845 with a Sunday School and vestry added to the east in 1874, is located on Ermine Street in Caxton. It is constructed of yellow gault brick and features a slate roof with an end stack at the east gable. The chapel is a single-storey building with two galleries and a two-storey rear extension. The gable facing the street has a symmetrical facade, with pilastered quoins and plastered brick bands at the eaves and sill height. The entrance features plain moulded stone architraves with a rectangular fanlight and double panelled doors, as well as two gallery windows with twelve-paned hung sashes.
Inside, there are open and partly closed galleries on the east and west sides, a pine boarded ceiling, and pine seating. A wall memorial made of white and black marble with a painted black inscription commemorates the founder, Samuel Fordham (1794-1876). The chapel's first meetings took place in the barns of Red Lion Farm.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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